Powering Faster, Better Decisions with Contextual Data Embedded in Workflows

We Focus on Accelerating Time-to-Market & Reducing Costs With Embedded Knowledge! And we’ve been focused there for over 20 years helping companies manage their performance in mission-critical, asset-intensive processes, e.g. test, enabling them to lower their cost and accelerate time-to-market.  We initially focused on test because of the large investment companies make there and over…

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Asset Management Success Factors: It’s the Humans, Stupid!

We don’t organize merely around managing assets.  Assets are easy to manage.  They never have a bad day.  They are never dissatisfied with their work, ask for more money, have hidden agendas or storm out of the room — although over the years we have heard quite a bit about how assets “walked”.  Assets can’t…

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Accelerate Enterprise Processes with Trustworthy Networks-of-Test-Capabilities

We’ve Been Building Resilient and Trustworthy Test Networks for Over 20 Years. Operations supported by test equipment are one of the most costly asset-intensive environments in large manufacturing companies. The practices and tools we use to build our customers’ asset networks are proven by results:  reducing equipment spend over 50% while decrease critical process cycle…

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Are You Building a Foundation for Speed?

Trust is the Foundation for Speed

Every solution you install in your company should enable you to increase your speed and reduce cost, and minimally should “do no harm” in either area.  Most solutions today fail this test and inadvertently reinforce old behaviors that add costs and delays because they aren’t designed to produce a foundation of trust.  Our solutions are…

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Equipment Utilization: What’s your number?

Measuring equipment utilization is the best way I know to determine if your assets are being hoarded and, as a result, if your business is incurring all of the costs associated with it.  Hoarding creates the need to acquire equipment that’s not really needed and all of the support costs as well.  It also causes…

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Stop Hoarding, Start Collaborating, Accelerate Results

Trust ends hoarding

Why Do People Hoard? Hoarding is the result of people not trusting they will get what they need when they need it.  They hoard test equipment, knowledge about tests, or services required to keep a test environment up and running and compliant…like calibration, repair, maintenance services.  They do this because they feel if they don’t…

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